"Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals."

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Ellen DeGeneres

#Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.”
“In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.”
“Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.”
“A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?”
“I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples...”

Source : Rigoberta Menchu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1992.
“I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.”
“In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.”
“There is a certain swagger with vampires.”

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